From: "Robert Comer" 

> We simply must spend 100 billion on a new gizmo to fend off the undoubted
> superiority of our foes....

Cold war part II.  Gotta keep us American people distracted from the real problems.

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Bob Comer





"Adam"  wrote in message
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> Monte Davis wrote:
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:
>>> They probably need the power to blind our satellites
>>
>> From an article I published 25 (!!) years ago -- the ineffable Maj.
>> Gen. George Keegan:
>>
>> "The Soviets have already deployed their first particle-beam weapon
>> and the world's largest laser weapon at Saryshagan in the Kazakh
>> Republic, and are testing them. These developments, along with
>> completion of the civil defense system, represent a degree of
>> superiority over the U.S. so imposing that the Soviets will feel free
>> to undertake whatever adventures they have in mind.
>>
>> "The U.S. has no choice but to begin an urgent national crash program
>> surpassing anything since the Manhattan Project. I think that for $30
>> billion to $50 billion we can undertake a number of initiatives in
>> directed-energy weapons that might hold promise of restoring a
>> significant balance within three to five years.
>>
>> "The CIA has kept this from Congress and the public in order to
>> rationalize d‚tente and the unequal SALT treaties.... For the next 20
>> years the subject of arms control should be wholly ignored because it
>> fulfills the aspirations of only two groups: the liberal press and the
>> Soviet Union. You simply have to do whatever is necessary to
>> discourage the other side from taking advantage, and so you go from
>> each new weapon to the next."
>>
>>
>
> Chuckle. Ah the joys of the MIC & their paranoid spokespeople....
>
> We simply must spend 100 billion on a new gizmo to fend off the undoubted
> superiority of our foes....
>
> Adam

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